3.6.11.5 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cdee3904b4ce7c03d1013ed6dd704b43ae7fc2e9 ] Commit b05d8447e782 (audit: inline audit_syscall_entry to reduce burden on archs) changed audit_syscall_entry to check for a dummy context before calling __audit_syscall_entry. Unfortunately the dummy context state is maintained in __audit_syscall_entry so once set it never gets cleared, even if the audit rules change. As a result, if there are no auditing rules when a process starts then it will never be subject to any rules added later. x86 doesn't see this because it has an assembly fast path that calls directly into __audit_syscall_entry. I noticed this issue when working on audit performance optimisations. I wrote a set of simple test cases available at: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/audit_tests.tar.gz 02_new_rule.py fails without the patch and passes with it. The test case clears all rules, starts a process, adds a rule then verifies the process produces a syscall audit record. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> # 3.3+ Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/audit.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h index 36abf2a..a36d567 100644 --- a/include/linux/audit.h +++ b/include/linux/audit.h @@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ static inline void audit_syscall_entry(int arch, int major, unsigned long a0, unsigned long a1, unsigned long a2, unsigned long a3) { - if (unlikely(!audit_dummy_context())) + if (unlikely(current->audit_context)) __audit_syscall_entry(arch, major, a0, a1, a2, a3); } static inline void audit_syscall_exit(void *pt_regs) -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html